biological anthropology, war health, growth development, being human
(You may want to read Part 1 here. Or not. Your call.) And still they teach you in your schoolAbout those glorious days of ruleAnd how it s your destiny to beSuperior to meBut if you ve any kind of mindYou ll see that all humankindAre the children of this earthAnd your hate for them will chew you up [ ]
(You may want to read Part 1 here. Or not. Your call.) . “As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, [ ]
Thorin: “Farewell, good thief. I wish to part in friendship, and would take back my words at the Gate.” Bilbo: There are many words I would take back also. Thorin: And does it take this to make us see each other? . I was wrong. You did understand war. It was I who did not, until [ ]
“(This is) a lecture on the mingling and merging and therefore on the oneness and unity of all the races of mankind...Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own stock.” – James Connolly, 1908 . Years [ ]
Summary: (1) Previous research shows that an immigration raid in Iowa in 2008 was associated with lower birth weight. (2) This was true of infants born to both foreign-born and US-born Latina women, suggesting this association centered around fear of being racially profiled, not merely immigration status. (3) Low birth weight is correlated with a [ ]
If you ever get close to a human And human behavior Be ready, be ready to get confused They re terribly, terribly, terribly moody And there is no map And a compass wouldn t help at all (Bjork, Human Behaviour , 1993) . This semester I tried something new in my undergraduate class on anthropology [ ]
Last week, Elon Musk wrote that “USAID is/was a radical-left political psy op,” as a partial explanation for his desire to close the organization. I am not an expert on the entire history of USAID (United States Agency for International Development), but I do know a little something about one particular episode in its past [ ]
“When there is a storm, and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability. —Alejandro G. Inarritu, The Revenant
Demagogue /n./ ˈdem’ə gäg’ : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. “Blessed are the ‘shithole countries,’ for they gave us the American Dream.” – Paul Hewson . In the past month, much of the political discourse in the U.S. revolved around fearmongering by Donald Trump and his [ ]
Together with my brilliant colleagues Delaney Glass (UToronto) and Meredith Reiches (UMass Boston), we recently published our article “Coming of age in war: Early life adversity, age at menarche, and mental health” in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. This was a special issue on forced migration and physiology, guest edited by Lee Gettler (Notre Dame) and Jelena [ ]